The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-09
The Western Eeyor.

TO The Editor Of InteilIgner.
Sin: For the benefit of those moro OF
lees infested with this nalady, allow me
to Say That know Of no DISEASE more fatal
to Thousands than this weetern fever
which prevails 40 generally in the middle
aud eastern States.
Many young men give up lucrative 20.
al!ions to 70 west expecting to make their
fortunes III dey, and being disappointed
III their expectations, are found engaged
IN the mes. menial pursuits. Oilers,
with families, sell thor homes aud take
the hard earnings OF Jears 10 secure
farm on Soma wessern prairie, away from
echoo!s, churcha, sud society, where :uel
end water arc nca.ce, and crops uncertain
merely to s.rnggle with poverty, without
a single earthly comfort, aud thon lie down
In death unknown aud unlanented out.
side their own households.
Among all my scqusintanccs from East.
ern States, who have settled in Kansas,
Nobyaasa and lows, | have not met with
any, except few bankers, mershauts and
professional men. who have bsttered their
condition, or who would not gladly, II
able, return 10 their old homes. They
have land, but nothing olec-no market
for their prcauOs-conseguently little or
40 money in debt for the improvements
they have made, with no prospect Of eysr
getting out o; debt. Ga come Of the inni.
grant wagons going west you will sec
printed in large letters: "Fos kapees or
Bust" and on others. returning, tho sig.
Ditcaut si2n: "Been to Kausag aud
Busted" What they lack in many nor.
tons Of the West, Is society and water,
both important factors 10 our comfort, and
just whGt they lack in HI.
During the last month I spen. q wick
in kanRas O!ty, a wonderful city, with 6
wonderful history and still more wonder.
tai gfoTih. The fever rag2s i.igttsully
here, and many s.rangers haye csughs Lhe
plssno, who, even il they remain, viii bs
nothing mere than financial ske!etous,
The PLACE Is nothing more than big hub.
BILE, isbis 10 burt any moment, 20 there
s not hing 10 vibrant ouch On expansion.
Rec! ea:ate has sGvaacad at q fearful rste.
Nov additions arc laid off in all direc.
tiong, aud lots arc selling a. fabulous
prices, much higher tksn lots relatively
situated In New YORK. Vast improve.
nents are rrcjsc!ed, aud tba wildcat Bpec-
ulasions INDUCED in, involving the city in
\ bonded debt that will prove crus:ine
losd Ter years to come. And, what is
strange, they are paving miles OF streets
With cedar b.ocsu, not co durable end
much more txpcru;ye than brick, and
which have been condemned as uu-
heslthy in lpauy eas!ern cities. The de-
cayibg wood rolaias hha moist5re Of the
rain and produces typhoid n1d ether
levers lsts!to tina health Of tho city, Why
Lot prof: by tho experience OF othere?
This Ia not only isus OF Kansas City,
but many smaller places are autfer;ng
from tho clns cause, while come Gre en-.
tircly le!uhct. l kuoT oil no place along
the Mississippi between St. Paul aud st,
Lonis, in which property has not greatly
deprecated in the lat tSar:y yeesa, This
! 10 also true OF tanning lando In the Slstes
bordering On the "Fa,hor Of Waters" the
tida oil immigration passing over them to
the ter.itories farther west whero hone.
rleads can be secured free, GO that i'm.
proved iarEs In certain localities can be-
purchased to-day ior what the wild had
cost thirty yoars ago.
My sdv:ss to all who contemplate re-
moving West, is, act cautiously; guard
agalrs: this contagious diasase, and II you
Lays comfortable homs o. poaition In
the Fact, don't part with it for the priya-
tons end uncertainties of the Wcst,
Deb.